WhatsApp finally dumps Blackberry

WhatsApp finally dumps Blackberry

On the 19th of July 2017, after faithfully sticking with BlackBerry for 4 years, Ibrahim realises that WhatsApp messages are not delivering on his BlackBerry  Z10 smartphone. Just like Ibrahim, other users are discovering WhatsApp has finally delisted the smartphone

maker as one of its supported platforms.

In February last year, WhatsApp made an official announcement via its blog that it was ending support for BlackBerry and other listed mobile platforms by the end of June 2017. In January, there was a brief scare period when user could not access WhatsApp 6 months earlier than the original date, this later appeared to be a technical glitch.

Yesterday, WhatsApp finally stopped working on smartphones running the BlackBerry smartphones after a 19-day grace period from the original timeline. Users got error messages when attempting to send messages on the instant messaging platform.

With over 1 billion monthly users on WhatsApp, this action will be the final nail in the coffin for smartphones running on the BlackBerry operating system. However, the new range of BlackBerry smartphones — DTEK50 ,DTEK6O, Priv, KEYone and Aurora — running on the Android operating system will still be supported.